Horseshoe



(No Model.)

J. MILLER.

HORSESHOE.

No. 465.674. Patented Dec. 22, 1891.

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HORSESHOE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 465,674, dated December 22, 1891.

Application filed December 20, 1889. Serial No. 334,377. (No model.)

To ctZZ whom it may concern.-

Be itknown that I, JOEL MILLER, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Philadelphia, leni'isylvania, have invented certain Improvements in Horseshoes, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to that class of horseshoes in which the body of theshoe is recessed for the reception of a piece of rope or like semi-elastic packing, the object of my invention being to so construct a horseshoe of this class that the same will present a rope surface extending around the entire shoe, and will be adapted to resist rapid wear at the toe without any material reduction in the area of the surface of the rope packing exposed at and near the toe of the shoe. This object I attain in the manner hereinafter set forth, reference being had to the ac com panying drawings, in which Figure 1 is an inverted perspective view of a horseshoe constructed :in accordance with view my invention. Fig. 2 is an inverted plan of the same with the rope packing and toecalk removed. Fig. is a section of the shoe, taken on the central longitudinal line 1 2, Fig. Fig. 4 is a side view of the shoe. Fig. 5 is a transverse section of the shoe, taken on the line 3 4, Fig. 2; and Figs. 6 and 7 are detached perspective views, on a larger scale, of parts of the shoe.

A'is the body of the shoe, which is in the form of a trough-that is to say, it has outer and inner ribs or flanges Z) Z), extending entirely around the shoe and inclosing a recess into which is packed a strip a of rope or like sen1iclastic material, the flanges I) I) being inclined slightly toward each other, as shown in Figs. 3 and 5, in order to retain the rope, and the shoe being also provided in some cases with pins 0, projecting into the recess to aid in retaining the rope therein. Projecting from the outer flange b of the shoe is a rib (l, in which the nail-holes e are formed.

Shoes of this character have before been devised; but when the rope extends entirely around the shoe, and the latter has at the toe only the inner and outer flanges to resist wear, it is rapidly worn away at the toe por tion, and the shoe must be discarded long before the other portions of the same are worn out. If, on the other hand,a hardened calk is inserted in the groove at the toe of the shoe the rope must be either very materially cut away or entirely omitted at the toe, and this is also objectionable, because the blows upon the shoes are heaviest at the toe, and there is consequently the greatest need for the rope packing at that point, not only to deaden the blow but also to prevent slippin \Vith my improved shoe, therefore, I combine the features of the continuous rope packing or filling presenting practically a uniform surface around the entire shoe, with the hardened toe-calk to prevent rapid wear of the shoe at the toe, and this I effect by forming beyond the outer flange b of the shoe at the toe portion of the latter a box or casing D for the reception of the steel or other hardened block E, constituting the toecalk, this block being securely confined both longitudinally and laterally by the walls fof box D, and being secured in position vertically by means of pins or studs 2', which are passed through openings 9 in the top of said box D, and then riveted, as shown in Fig. 3. The flange d extends out to the front of the box D, and thus serves to brace said boxlaterally as well as to receive the nails.

\Vithout claiming, broadly, therefore a horseshoe having a rope filling or packing extending around the same, or a horseshoe having a detachable toe-calk, or a horseshoe in which a rope packing and a toe-calk are combined, I claim as my invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent The within-described horseshoe, having a grooved body with inner and outer flanges extending completely around the shoe, a rope filling contained within saidgroove and likewise extending completely around the shoe, a 'box or casing formed on the toe part of the shoe in advance of the outer flange of the grooved bod y, a hardened calk secured in said box or casing, and a flange extending around the top of the shoe and serving both to receive the nails and to brace the calk-receiving box at the toe of the shoe, substantially as specified.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

JOEL MILLER.

Witnesses:

HENRY lIowsoN, HARRY SMITH. 

